Vallejo cops sort findings from hunt for Xiana

Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, January 12, 2000

After spending two days sifting through more than 300 items picked up by volunteer searchers looking for Xiana Fairchild, police investigators have narrowed the pile down to 30 articles of clothing.

"They're all clothing items that we will be showing to the family members," Vallejo police Lt. JoAnn West said Tuesday. "At this time there's no reason to believe that any of it belongs to Xiana."

The items were found by more than 700 volunteers who scoured Vallejo Sunday, looking for any clues to the whereabouts of the girl who vanished Dec. 9. She apparently disappeared after leaving her downtown studio apartment to walk to her school bus stop three blocks away.

Meanwhile, the Contra Costa Times reported Wednesday that Xiana's maternal grandmother and a family friend have been issued subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury that is looking into the girl's disappearance.

Diana Raymundo, 49, was ordered to appear Friday morning before the grand jury in Sacramento. She is to bring letters, notes, pictures or other documents pertaining to the missing girl, the girl's mother, Antoinette Robinson, and Robinson's estranged boyfriend, Robert Turnbough, the Times said.

The paper said Eddie Fox, a family friend and frequent visitor to Turnbough and Robinson's studio apartment, also received a subpoena.

Xiana's great-grandmother, Lita Domingo, said Tuesday evening that police have not yet contacted her about looking at the clothes found by the volunteers. However, she said she had already looked through most items on Sunday.

"But I didn't see anything that I recognized," said Domingo, 67.

Investigators planned to also contact Xiana's mother and Turnbough.

Both have been under scrutiny in recent weeks after giving conflicting statements about what happened the morning Xiana disappeared.

Robinson has kicked Turnbough out of the apartment and he was reportedly living in a minivan rented by police. He had swapped cars after authorities seized two of his vehicles early in the investigation.

However, Turnbough returned the minivan last weekend after police gave back one of his cars.

Turnbough's second vehicle, a Ford Bronco, will be kept by authorities indefinitely, she said.

Two Vallejo police detectives also continued their search Tuesday for any evidence in a remote landfill in Washington state.

The detectives spent several days last week in Roosevelt, Wash., where garbage from Vallejo is dumped. &lt;